Charlie

For Charlie Hebdo and our murdered friends

This huge pain paralyses us, because we fail to understand the terrorist attacks and particulary such a criminal offence that killed our friends and colleagues defenders of freedom of speech as well as other people doing their daily job. We, FECO and all their representatives, would like to express our heart-felt and thorough solidarity with Charlie Hebdo. Our basic values have been attacked cowardly, but we must not be tempted to doubt for a second and we will continue to express ourselves in our free opinion. I am also thinking of the Muslim community who may feel uncomfortable in this situation. We must take care not to stigmatize them, because those who carry out these barbaric attacks are just evil terrorists and they deserve to be severely punished by law. For us all, we Europeans who like democracy and press freedom, life goes on, probably much sadder, but with the conviction that living in freedom is the greatest gift ever. So we all adhere to the slogan that has already become an international call : JE SUIS CHARLIE. We have to keep all our compassion for the families of the victims on that dreadful day.